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焚书
fén​shū

burning of books

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  • 焚书坑儒 fén​shū​kēng​rú literary purge
    to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor [[秦始皇|秦始皇|Qin2 Shi3 huang2]])